News Release Number: STScI-2007-05

Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality"

January 10, 2007: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young
stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives.

This is gleaned from new observations by Hubble's Advanced Camera for
Surveys that were used to do a "Where's Waldo" search for blue stars tossed
out of their open cluster "nest" in the nearby galaxy known as NGC 1313.